pared for the old man, by fixing a basket on the animal’s back: they then put the skins or other soft things into it to make it easy, and next lifting up the old man, they place him carefully in the basket, with a child or two on each side, to take care and steady him during the march, while he seems to sit and hold on, more from long habit than from choice.—As soon as they stop to pitch the tents, the old man is taken from his camel, and being carefully seated, a drink of water or milk is given him. When the tent is pitched, he is carefully taken up and placed under it on their mat, where he can go to sleep.

Arabia is the country of coffee, and though it has been transplanted and thrives well in the American islands ⚫ and Isle of Bourbon, ⚫ still Arabia is famous for producing the best coffee in the world. Many cargoes are annually exported to Europe, India, and America. The coffee shrub grows 8 or 10 feet high, but in general not more than one pound on a single plant. An acre yields from three to seven hundred pounds of coffee; the Arabs in hot weather use the shells or husks of the coffee, these being more cooling than the berry. The dates of Arabia are excellent. Arabia deserta is a dreary waste, a boundless level of barren sand, intersected by naked mountains, affording neither shade nor shelter from the burning rays of a tropical sun.

Arabia Petrea ⚫ is that region, where the children of Israel wandered for 40 years. here are no verdant